Ephraim King Wilson (September 15, 1771 – January 2, 1834) was a Congressional Representative for the

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. Wilson was born near

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, on September 15, 1771. Graduated from

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in 1790, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1792. He opened a practice in Snow Hill and was elected from the eighth district of Maryland to the

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and reelected as a Jacksonian to the

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. He resumed his law practice in Snow Hill after a failed nomination to the Twenty-second Congress and continued his practice until his death in Snow Hill on January 2, 1834. He is buried in the churchyard of

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. He was also the father of

Ephraim King Wilson II Ephraim King Wilson II (December 22, 1821February 24, 1891) the son of Ephraim King Wilson, was a United States House of Representatives, Congressional Representative and a United States Senate, Senator from Maryland. Biography Ephraim King Wil ...

and

William Sydney Wilson William Sydney Wilson (November 7, 1816 – November 3, 1862) was an American politician. Biography He was born in Snow Hill, Maryland, and later moved to Mississippi. He was the son of Ephraim King Wilson and brother to Ephraim King Wilson I ...

. His daughter was the second wife of Maryland Court of Appeals judge

Ara Spence Ara Spence (February 26, 1793 – May 27, 1866)Leslie P. Dryden, ''Dryden Family & Descendants'' (1999), p. 52.''Maryland: A Guide to the Old Line State'' (1976), p. 445. was a justice of the Maryland Court of Appeals from 1835 to 1851. Born in W ...

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